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regarding Debian Stretch can't be installed or booted on Apollo Lake systems.
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Package: grub-efi-amd64
Version: 2.02~beta3-5
Severity: important
Tags: d-i patch
There is a bug in the version of Grub2 shipped in Debian stable that renders
grub unable to boot in Apollo Lake systems (this are usually recent netbooks
or ultrabooks with Celeron/Atom CPUs).
The issue is that the EFI binary generated by Grub2 from Stretch hangs this
systems completely.
See: https://medium.com/@pawitp/grub-2-issue-on-intel-n4200-97c12d4db8af
The fix is simply to backport this patch
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grub.git/commit/?id=446794de8da4329ea532cbee4ca877bcafd0e534
(which applies cleanly over the grub version in Stretch).
I think it will be a good idea to release a new version of Grub2 for stable
with this patch and generate a new image of the debian installer.
Otherwise it is impossible (well, not impossible, but very difficult) to
install Debian Stretch on this systems.
Note that Debian testing is not affected, as this patch is already included
there. The fix is only necessary for Stretch.
I attach a debdiff of a backport I did myself. I have verified that Debian
Stretch boots fine on my Yepo 737A laptop (Apollo Lake) with this new version
of Grub2.
diff -Nru grub2-2.02~beta3/debian/changelog grub2-2.02~beta3/debian/changelog
--- grub2-2.02~beta3/debian/changelog 2017-02-11 16:09:19.000000000 +0100
+++ grub2-2.02~beta3/debian/changelog 2018-09-15 01:51:02.000000000 +0200
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+grub2 (2.02~beta3-6) stable; urgency=medium
+
+ * Non-maintainer upload.
+ * Fix boot on Apollo Lake EFI systems.
+
+ -- Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez <[email protected]> Sat, 15 Sep 2018 01:51:02 +0200
+
grub2 (2.02~beta3-5) unstable; urgency=medium
[ Steve McIntyre ]
diff -Nru grub2-2.02~beta3/debian/patches/fix_boot_apollo_lake.patch grub2-2.02~beta3/debian/patches/fix_boot_apollo_lake.patch
--- grub2-2.02~beta3/debian/patches/fix_boot_apollo_lake.patch 1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100
+++ grub2-2.02~beta3/debian/patches/fix_boot_apollo_lake.patch 2018-09-15 01:49:57.000000000 +0200
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+From 446794de8da4329ea532cbee4ca877bcafd0e534 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: "David E. Box" <[email protected]>
+Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2017 15:37:05 -0700
+Subject: tsc: Change default tsc calibration method to pmtimer on EFI systems
+
+On efi systems, make pmtimer based tsc calibration the default over the
+pit. This prevents Grub from hanging on Intel SoC systems that power gate
+the pit.
+
+Signed-off-by: David E. Box <[email protected]>
+Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <[email protected]>
+---
+ grub-core/kern/i386/tsc.c | 2 +-
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/grub-core/kern/i386/tsc.c b/grub-core/kern/i386/tsc.c
+index 2e85289..f266eb1 100644
+--- a/grub-core/kern/i386/tsc.c
++++ b/grub-core/kern/i386/tsc.c
+@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ grub_tsc_init (void)
+ #ifdef GRUB_MACHINE_XEN
+ (void) (grub_tsc_calibrate_from_xen () || calibrate_tsc_hardcode());
+ #elif defined (GRUB_MACHINE_EFI)
+- (void) (grub_tsc_calibrate_from_pit () || grub_tsc_calibrate_from_pmtimer () || grub_tsc_calibrate_from_efi() || calibrate_tsc_hardcode());
++ (void) (grub_tsc_calibrate_from_pmtimer () || grub_tsc_calibrate_from_pit () || grub_tsc_calibrate_from_efi() || calibrate_tsc_hardcode());
+ #elif defined (GRUB_MACHINE_COREBOOT)
+ (void) (grub_tsc_calibrate_from_pmtimer () || grub_tsc_calibrate_from_pit () || calibrate_tsc_hardcode());
+ #else
+--
+cgit v1.0-41-gc330
+
diff -Nru grub2-2.02~beta3/debian/patches/series grub2-2.02~beta3/debian/patches/series
--- grub2-2.02~beta3/debian/patches/series 2017-02-11 16:03:45.000000000 +0100
+++ grub2-2.02~beta3/debian/patches/series 2018-09-15 01:50:47.000000000 +0200
@@ -57,3 +57,4 @@
efinet_set_network_from_uefi_devpath.patch
efinet_set_dns_from_uefi_proto.patch
grub-install-efibootmgr-check.patch
+fix_boot_apollo_lake.patch
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Source: grub2
Source-Version: 2.02~beta3-5+deb9u1
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
grub2, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
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Colin Watson <[email protected]> (supplier of updated grub2 package)
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Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2018 19:18:13 +0000
Source: grub2
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Distribution: stable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: GRUB Maintainers <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Colin Watson <[email protected]>
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Closes: 871772 908852
Changes:
grub2 (2.02~beta3-5+deb9u1) stable; urgency=medium
.
* grub-mknetdir: Add support for ARM64 EFI (closes: #871772).
* Cherry-pick upstream patch to change the default TSC calibration method
to pmtimer on EFI systems (closes: #908852).
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